HinesLab is an independent R&D company, established in 1983 by Steve Hines offering engineering consulting and development of photographic equipment, miniaturized cameras, auto-stereoscopic 3-D displays, and flight-simulator optics.

Steve is an engineering consultant, broad-based inventor and former Sr. Research Physicist with the Kodak Research Laboratories, and holds 30 patents on optical and mechanical inventions. HinesLab offers manufacturing licenses for many of the technologies shown here.

• North Carolina State University, School of Design, Raleigh, NC, 1963-1969. Majoring in Product Design (Industrial Design) based on engineering and the manufacturing processes that we would encounter professionally. Before graduation, Steve received the highest-salary job offer, and the most job offers (seven) in his graduating class in the Product Design program.

• General Motors, Warren, MI, summer of 1968, Designer, Student Summer Program. Developed, illustrated, modeled and presented a car of the future, including projected map and navigation system and new construction techniques.

• Benson Aircraft Corporation, Raleigh, NC summer of 1967. Research and Development Department. Conceived, engineered, built and tested several in-flight trim control mechanisms for autogyros.